Black and White Card Front - Flora and Fauna for Drive By Crafts

Hi everyone! I'm back today to share the beautifully simplistic Floral Aviary set from Flora and Fauna. Something about all Flora and Fauna sets have such a folksy-elegant look to them. In case you're wondering, I did indeed just create the style name folksy-elegant. ;)

I knew I wanted to keep most of the florals black and white. The stamps themselves are quite detailed and I didn't want to take away from the beautiful design with too much color. I love the way it looks like it was sketched right there on the card front and thought that adding a lot of color would distract from that somehow. I didn't have to do any masking for this card because I stamped most of them off the edge. It's a great way to create a frame for your card front without needed to mask it all. I decided to use my Zig Real Brush markers in pale green and pale violet to highlight some of the stamps and draw a bit of color into the leaves and florals. To drive home the black and white appearance, I decided to mat the card front with a piece of black card stock.

I stamped the birds included in the set on a spare piece of card stock and decided to color them in completely and fussy cut them out since they would be in the center of the card. I thought it would be a good way to draw attention to the "have a good day" sentiment strip. I finished off the look with some black watercolor splatter and Nuvo Jewel Drops in Pale Periwinkle.

I hope that you've enjoyed learning a bit about how I decided to use the Flora and Fauna Floral Aviara stamp set. I'll see you soon!